{"id":64245,"date":"2012-05-11T19:54:37","date_gmt":"2012-05-12T02:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=64245"},"modified":"2012-05-11T19:54:37","modified_gmt":"2012-05-12T02:54:37","slug":"nascar-danica-patrick-earns-her-stripes-in-darlington-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=64245","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR &#8211; Danica Patrick earns her stripes in Darlington debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">DARLINGTON, S.C. \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Danica Patrick received a pleasantly rude introduction Friday to Darlington Raceway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\" style=\"text-align: left;\">After being warned for weeks that her first trip to the track &#8220;Too Tough To Tame&#8221; would be a stiff challenge, Patrick happily earned her stripes \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the right-side scrapes that appear on virtually every car during a NASCAR practice or race on the 1.366-mile oval.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;This is a tough place and everything they said about it is true,&#8221; Patrick said. &#8220;This &#8216;Lady in Black&#8217; is\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/motor\/nascar\/story\/2012-05-11\/Danica-Patrick-first-trip-to-Darlington\/54908704\/1\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DARLINGTON, S.C. \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Danica Patrick received a pleasantly rude introduction Friday to Darlington Raceway. After being warned for weeks that her first trip to the track &#8220;Too Tough To Tame&#8221; would be a stiff challenge, Patrick happily earned her stripes \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the right-side scrapes that appear on virtually every car during a NASCAR practice or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64246,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64245\/revisions\/64246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}